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ARCHITECTS OF OUR PROFESSIONAL FUTURESYOU!

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"Perhaps the greatest cost of wave conflict in America will be paid by the millions of children currently compulsorily enrolled in schools that are attempting to prepare them -and not very successfully at that - for jobs that won't exist. Call that stealing the future."

--Alvin Toffler, futurist and author of Future Shock and other books. This quote is from1970

If you are entering the job market, thinking about your future or less than 30 years old, you are anarchitect of the job-future. You will not be called upon to enter a pre-existing market and adapt to it, youare going to be called upon to CREATE it. A few days ago I spoke to a very impressive group of secondary school (high school) students who were asking about job titles of the future. I suggested tothem that they would be the ones to create those job titles, because many are not in existence yet!

Here are some thoughts for you if you thinking about your future career:

1. THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWNUnlike many people, I see this current crisis as an opportunity for all of us to reassess what hasbeen important to us. This is the purpose of crisis in both our personal lives and our collective

lives. It allows us to take stock and decide what is really important and what needs changing.Do not allow the current hysteria around financial markets and the lack of a future marketplaceBASED ON TODAY S VALUE SYSTEMS to scare you. It is there because it is time for a change. You,as a young person, will be an architect of this change. The professional job market will not bethe same.2. KNOW YOURSELF


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Stick to your guns know yourself and remain true to your personal gifts and talents, and planto use them! When we are young we are still discovering ourselves. In fact, we do this allthrough our lives. We ask the question: WHO AM I? And we get experiences and answers fromvarious sources as we go through life. Believe in yourself; strive to understand your own talentsand unique gifts. There is no one else like you in the whole world. You have something special to

give! Do not take for granted what comes easily to you and what you enjoy doing. Do it!Develop your talents in it, expand through it, and create through it. That is the gift you have togive back to the world. It makes a better world, and ultimately it will bring you personalsatisfaction. A winning combination, no?!3. TRUST YOURSELFThink and act creatively with respect to your own future: remember that many current jobsWILL NOT BE THERE in 10 years they will be replaced by new jobs. For example, do you thinkthe oil industry is going to be the power giant it is now in 10 years? What about plasticscompanies? Drug companies? Or do you think that Green companies may prevail? What newpositions will be created to replace the old ones? Sometimes we forget that the current jobmarket was and job titles were new at one point: there was no internet and media as weknow it today, there were no airplanes and travel as we know it today, there were nomechanized factories and industrial labor as we know it today. Can you see how our current jobs and professions came about as a result of CHANGES, new technology and economicnecessity? This is how your new working world will also come about.4. FORGET GOING FOR MONEY FIRSTIf you fall into the trap of going for money first and meaning second you become a part of theold status quo. Is this what you want, or do you want to be a trial-blazer in creating newprofessions that are based on integrity, meaning, social responsibility and ABUNDANCE (in thatorder). Our abundance comes as a result of pursuing what we love to do with integrity, not viceversa. One more thing: we are usually operating in FEAR when we make our personal choicesbased on lack of abundance. Decisions made on that basis hardly ever work. Or if they do, wehave to struggle greatly to achieve them. That is the old way. You will develop a new waybased on self-confidence and understanding that abundance comes as a result of joyous effort,not struggle.5. HAVE YOU BEEN PREPARED FOR THIS?Yes .You are absolutely, completed, prepared and qualified to change the world! And as we allhave, you will learn as you go along!

Here are some ideas about how the world may be different. Can these ideas inspire you to thinkabout jobs and professions in a different way?

1. There will be a single world currency2. Companies will be owned by their employees: therefore management as we know it today,

based on hierarchy, will not exist3. There will be an equal balance of male and female influence globally


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4. Education and helping functions such as international aid will be abundant. (if you wantto look at what is really important to a culture, look at where the money goes)

5. Companies will embrace a sincere role of social/global responsibility6. There will be a single global language in addition to local languages7. Political systems will be responsible only for creating jobs and providing services8. Schools will allow students to study what interests them, at their own pace. Teachers as

we know them now won t exist. Students will learn how to learn, as opposed to beingtaught facts and history unless that is what interest them! Courses on specific subjects of interest will be voluntary.

9. People will have more leisure time and workweeks will be completely flexible.10. People will have a sense of connectedness and compassion for those in other cultures11. All new products will be eco-friendly12. Countries as political entities as we know them today, will not exist13. Travel to other parts of the globe (and outside of it?) will be faster14. The internet will be obsolete

"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, butthose who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." Alvin Toffler

If you have ideas about where we are going in the job and professional market, write me and Iwill publish them!Think out of the box!With warm Regards, Jill Coleman

Alvin Toffler wrote Future Shock (1970) Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-27737-5

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